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Expedition Medics Course
Your medical skills can take you a long, long way!
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| | This five-day course is aimed at interested health care professionals advising travellers and / or those planning to work as expedition medics. The course covers the fundamentals of travel health and expedition
medicine and highlights any advances in the field of travel medicine. The course content is extremely interesting and p revious speakers / subjects include:
Malaria epidemiology and prevention
Professor David Lalloo, Clinical Director, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
Leishmaniasis
Dr Tim O’Dempsey: Consultant of Tropical Diseases, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
Jet lag
Professor Jim Waterhouse, Professor of Biological Rhythms at Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Travel vaccines and the diseases they prevent
Claire Wong, Travel Health Nurse Advisor, National Travel Health Network and Centre UK
Travellers Diarrhoea
Professor David Hill, Director of National travel Health Network & Centre UK
Expedition and wilderness medicine
Dr Alastair Miller,
Consultant Physician in Infectious disease, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Honorary Fellow, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
Altitude: the highs and lows
Dr Jim Milledge: President International Society of Mountain Medicine
Cold Injury and Hypothermia
Professor Chris Imray,
Consultant Vascular and Transplant Surgeon, Warwick Medical School UHCW NHS Trust, UK
The role of the British Antarctic Survey Medic
Pete Marquis, British Antarctic Survey Medical Unit, UK
| Course Dates & Duration | | Typical entry requirements | Course dates for 2010 are:
Monday 22nd February to Friday 26th
February
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Doctor, Nurse, Paramedic, Medic, EMT | Course Breakdown | | Location | Full week
NHS rate £495
Non-NHS rate £575
Or Per day
NHS rate £110
Non–NHS rate £125
| | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Pembroke Place
Liverpool
L3 5QA
UK | For more information | |
Contact Information | Web: Well Travelled Clinics Web Site
PDF: download pdf application form:
Flyer & Application Form | |
Telephone enquiries: +44 (0)151 705 3208 Email: l.c.hand@liv.ac.uk | | | |
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